“In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself i...” — Dougray Scott Quote

In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve.

You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry.

Fairfax was incredibly important to the shaping of the country.

I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg.

I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life.

I wasted too much time in my twenties. I worked, but I would do theater in the evening, and during the day I would surf and do irascible things. And then, for some reason, as I got closer to my thirties, I thought, 'Okay Joel, you've wasted enough time.'

Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our garbage to transform ourselves. This is the key that unlocks the door that opens to God.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Making films has been kind of my way of getting closer to God.

My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.